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smknman

smknman

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Any Linux users out there? What distro do you use? Anything you miss about microcrap?

I use Elive based on Debian, it has a nice eyecandy gui using enlightenment. To me it feels great to get away from a monopoly and safe from the blue screen of death. I have not yet managed to get my TV tuner card to work properly, but I will figure it out eventualy.
 
I abandoned Windows 5 years ago with no regrets. I use Windows only once each year now -- to run tax preparation software. My software spending dropped to almost nothing since switching to free (as in beer) software.

Had been a daily UNIX user since 1976 in graduate school then on the job so the transition to Linux in 2001 was smooth.

I currently use Fedora Core 5.
 
I made a bootable cd of knoppix live for a friend to use to recover data on her crashed hp computer running windows media version.
I tested it here before I gave it to her, and was astonished that it detected all the hardware opn my own pc with no trouble at all (except my hp laserjet 4p) and already had software installed that let me burn folders of files from my ntfs drive to a blank cd. And let me connect to the internet via my cable connection with no effort whatsoever via ethernet to road runner.
You sure can't do that booting off a windows cd! And if you have a name brand computer that won't even boot windows into safe mode any more, you might be stuck with recovery disks that just wipe your data off the lard drive and restore an image of the hard drive the way it was when you took the computer out of the box., meaning your personal files are gone.
When I get around to upgrading the hardware in the pc I'm using now, I'm going to put the motherboard/cpu etc in a new case and install mandrila on it.
I sure don't want to upgrade to vista, and if I can find viable software for movie backups I'd be sorely tempted to drop XP as well.
Though I did not think that open office was near as nice as ms office '97 (which Im still using), and it is a lot easier to install printers in windows. And wireless ethernet, though I probably will never have a use for that.
And I would probably miss the few windows based games I play on my pc.
 
ubuntu, debian, freebsd, open suse, mandriva. tried them all prefer ubuntu just cause im lazy. i triple boot on my hp dv4170 between windows xp (with vista transformations), ubuntu, and mac tiger osx x86.

cheers^^
 
I've just encountered another language. :p
 
I've had some Red Hat versions up and running. Have Ubuntu and BSD right now.

What keeps me in Windows is FrameMaker. That program has been my bread and butter. Adobe had a linux demo version timebombed. Was a great six months while it lasted.

Phil
 
i primarily use Redhat Enterprise Linux, but i use Fedora Core 5 and Knoppix quite a bit

i use a Powerbook with OSX a lot of the time as well

the only things i generally miss on Linux are plugin compatibilities, or complexity, Outlook and Partypoker

for some things i basically have to have Windows though, i still primarily use it at home
 
I've been playing with dual-booting Linux for years, not as much any more though. I've used Mandrake mostly, but also Red Hat and Lycoris. I'm a huge fan of some of the LiveCd distros, such as Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, and Morphix Gamer.

I've also played with QNX, Oberon, FreeBSD, and a bunch of others.
Still, my favorite OS is BeOS. Anyone still use that?

-Bob
 
No Linux, but I am running three flavors of Windows, two of DOS, many versions of Mac OS, CP/M, Amiga, Apple II, BASIC, plus whatever Sinclairs and CoCos use. All on different original computers, no emulators here!
 
All on different original computers, no emulators here!
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Very cool! I don't have a CoCo, but I do have a Times Sinclair 1000 if that's the "sinclair" you're referring to. I've got quite a pile of vintage computers.

-Bob
 
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